Nokia is either on the verge of a Big Winner or is going the way of the dodo.

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Deano:
I've read a few takes on the trial that say this is all good news for Samsung. If you accept that they copied then it's just cost them $1bn to become second in the market. And they're appealing that in any case. Their marketing budget alone is $3bn.
Meanwhile Microsoft "innovated" with Windows Phone and they're nowhere. Look where Palm and Nokia are. Following in Apple's footsteps was the smartest move.
And yes, do a bleeding decent Picard voice!

$1B, and what could turn into a permanent injunction against sales of some of its top-of-the-line products. That's a killer. Won't know until December, though.
Well, it's mostly last-generation stuff. But I imagine they still sell Galaxy S2s.


It's not going to kill Samsung or fundamentally hurt them in any way. And they'll be appealing this for years. I'd understand if the Galaxy S3 was affected but it's not.
I know I'd prefer to be in Samsung's position rather than say RIM.

>> ^Deano:

I've read a few takes on the trial that say this is all good news for Samsung. If you accept that they copied then it's just cost them $1bn to become second in the market. And they're appealing that in any case. Their marketing budget alone is $3bn.
Meanwhile Microsoft "innovated" with Windows Phone and they're nowhere. Look where Palm and Nokia are. Following in Apple's footsteps was the smartest move.
And yes, do a bleeding decent Picard voice!


$1B, and what could turn into a permanent injunction against sales of some of its top-of-the-line products. That's a killer. Won't know until December, though.

Well, it's mostly last-generation stuff. But I imagine they still sell Galaxy S2s.

I've read a few takes on the trial that say this is all good news for Samsung. If you accept that they copied then it's just cost them $1bn to become second in the market. And they're appealing that in any case. Their *marketing* budget alone is $3bn.

Meanwhile Microsoft "innovated" with Windows Phone and they're nowhere. Look where Palm and Nokia are. Following in Apple's footsteps was the smartest move.

And yes, do a bleeding decent Picard voice!

THIS IS A SYMPTOM OF TOUCHSCREEN TEXTING.

With a physical keyboard you can learn the letter placement and not have to look at the screen. Hell I could text 40 words per minute on an old Nokia brick using t9 BEHIND MY BACK.

In other words I blame Apple fans.

>> ^notarobot:

Nokia has produced a phone to be the envy of every Apple and Samsung product on the market. I know nothing of the "Symbian" OS vs. other popular mobile OSs, but it looks incredible. Too bad it will never set foot on NorthAm soil.


No, Nokia has produced a phone with a camera that appears to be pretty good. The camera is about 5% of my smart phone usage (if that). And having previously owned a few symbian phones, you could not drag me back to that platform.

http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8000-series/808/Nokia808PureView_Whitepaper.pdf>> ^deathcow:

41 megapixels is stupid. I want to know more about how they are coming up with that figure.

I'm more excited about what Nokia is doing with camera phone technology...

http://videosift.com/video/Nokia-Has-a-41MP-Camera-Phone-It-Was-Used-To-Make-This-Ad

They are using basically satellite picture technology to allow for lose-less digital zoom.

Yeah I could really care less about what OS it has as long as it is fairly functional. Giving up "apps" to have this camera is something I think alot of people would do. Oh well...hopefully MS doesn't overlook this opprotunity and gets a Windows Phone version to the US asap.>> ^notarobot:

Nokia has produced a phone to be the envy of every Apple and Samsung product on the market. I know nothing of the "Symbian" OS vs. other popular mobile OSs, but it looks incredible. Too bad it will never set foot on NorthAm soil.

Nokia has produced a phone to be the envy of every Apple and Samsung product on the market. I know nothing of the "Symbian" OS vs. other popular mobile OSs, but it looks incredible. Too bad it will never set foot on NorthAm soil.

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Oh, no offense taken. I'm Finnish by ancestry. I don't actually have any connection with Finland besides some old pictures, my Nokia cell-phone and the fact that I think they're awesome.

If you're going to out one company for being in business with Foxconn, why not out them all? Own a game console? Your Xbox, PS3, and Wii were all made here. Like to read? This is where your Kindle came from.

Foxconn isn't just producing ithings and iphones, they assemble 40% of the world's electronics. Here's a list of SOME of Foxconn's clients (from wikipedia):

Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)
Apple Inc. (United States)
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Dell (United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Lenovo (China)
Logitech (Switzerland)
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Sharp (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)

"The Nokia tune (also called Grande Valse on old Nokia mobile phones) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_tune

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